# North Small Translate

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- Multilingual
- Reasoning (not available)
- Image Inputs (not available)
- Safety Modes (not available)
- Citations (not available)
- Tool Use (not available)
- Structured Outputs (not available)
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North Small Translate is free until rate limits are reached. For production, contact sales@cohere.com.
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- **Context Window:** 16K tokens
- **Max Output Tokens:** 16K tokens
- **Model Size:** 218B total / 25B active
- **Suggested Hardware:** Two H100s or one B200 (W4A16)
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**Model ID** `north-small-translate-1-0`

- Chat V2
- Chat V1 (not available)
- Chat Completions (not available)
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[Try in Playground](https://dashboard.cohere.com/playground?model=north-small-translate-1-0)

## Description

North Small Translate is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model purpose-built for machine translation.
It has 218 billion total parameters, with 25 billion active parameters, and a 16K context length.

The model provides flexible deployment options for research and enterprise use. Its weights are openly available in
W4A16, FP8, and BF16 under the [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
for non-commercial use.

## What can North Small Translate be used for?

North Small Translate is well-suited for:

- **Knowledge management**: Translate internal documentation, wikis, standard operating procedures, technical
  manuals, historical reports, and institutional knowledge.
- **Safety and operations**: Translate safety manuals, emergency procedures, maintenance instructions,
  manufacturing procedures, incident reports, field-service documentation, and operational alerts.
- **Internal communication**: Translate company announcements, leadership communications, HR policies,
  employee handbooks, benefits information, onboarding materials, newsletters, and intranet content.
- **Localization and customer support**: Translate product content and customer communications while retaining
  control over where the model and data are hosted.

## Supported languages

North Small Translate supports English and more than 50 language and locale variants. Its tier-one languages are
Modern Standard Arabic, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Ukrainian.

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- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Irish
- Italian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Maltese
- Polish
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Romanian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
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:::accordion{title="All supported languages and locale variants"}
- Albanian
- Arabic (Egyptian)
- Arabic (Modern Standard)
- Arabic (Saudi)
- Bengali
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Maltese
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian (Cyrillic)
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
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## Getting started

North Small Translate is available on the free tier through the [Chat V2 API](/api). Ask the model to
translate the supplied content into a target language:

```python PYTHON
from cohere import ClientV2

co = ClientV2(api_key="<YOUR_API_KEY>")

target_language = "French"
content = "Enterprises need accurate translations of business-critical documents."

response = co.chat(
    model="north-small-translate-1-0",
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": f"Translate everything that follows into {target_language}:\n\n{content}",
        }
    ],
)

print(response.message.content[0].text)
```

## Distribution and technical integration

- **Cohere deployment (free tier - Cohere API)**: Try the model on the free tier through the Chat V2 API.
  Usage is subject to limitations set out in the applicable commercial agreements with customers, including
  Cohere's [Usage Policy](/guides/responsible-use-usage-guidelines).
- **Open weights deployment**: Download the
  [NVFP4 W4A16 model from Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/North-Small-Translate-1.0-w4a16) for
  non-commercial use under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
- **Hardware**: Suggested hardware by quantization format:
  - **W4A16**: Two H100s or one B200
  - **FP8**: Four H100s or two B200s
  - **BF16**: Eight H100s or four B200s

## Frequently asked questions

### What is machine translation?

Machine translation uses software to convert text from one language into another. A purpose-built generative model
can act as the translation engine in an application, workflow, or translation platform.

### Why use a machine translation model?

A model gives developers control over integration, prompting, deployment, data residency, and customization.
Self-hosted and private deployments can also support sovereignty requirements and reduce dependence on a fixed
translation platform.

### When is a translation platform a better fit?

A translation platform wraps a model with features such as collaboration, content management, project management,
and formatting. Use a platform when those workflow features are more important than direct control over the model.

## Model Data and Training

- **EU AI Act Article 53(1)(d)**:

  Public Summary of Training Content

## Related pages

- [North Mini Code](./models-north-north-mini-code-1-0.md)

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